<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by aneye4detail:
<p>blanp, you seem to be the only one who understands what I'm pointing out. So thanks for confirming my belief that it's wrong.
However, please expand on what you mean by "it's wrong, in more ways than one."<hr></blockquote><p>
<p>I'm not blanp, or even a reasonable facsimile, but will take a guess at this:<p>1. We see disagreement on this board on equating a "troop" and a "soldier." Few readers would; I change it, but without passion. (I save that for AP's 23-year-old rule on "people," which shows how persnickety I can be.)<p>2. Many people would object to equating "casualties" and "deaths," as this example seems to. "Casualties" can include the wounded. <p>3. The pre-May 1 deaths didn't raise the death toll to 276, as this says; the post-May 1 deaths did that -- Monday's in particular.<p>4. Many of the deaths did not occur in combat, as this seems to suggest.<p>blanp was probably thinking of 10 things more obvious and egregious that I've missed.<p>Just thought of two more possibilities (though probably not any that blanp would consider):<p>5. Beavis and Butthead would giggle at the verb "mount."<p>6. If soldiers' continuing to be killed by bullets and grenades and bombs while occupying a recently conquered nation isn't a war, then what has been going on since May 1? We're at war. And that's true even if we don't consider this part of the White House's wars on terrorism or on drugs.<p>[ August 28, 2003: Message edited by: Wayne Countryman ]<p>[ August 28, 2003: Message edited by: Wayne Countryman ]</p>